The newly released European State of the Climate 2024 annual report (ESOTC), co-published by the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation program and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), confirms what public health experts have long warned about: the health costs of climate change in Europe are rising fast, and so is the human toll.
HEAL, together with 7 other health and environmental civil society organisations has today sent a letter to Executive Vice-Presidents Timmermans and Dombrovskis, and Commissioner Sinkevičius, to call on them to translate the ambition stated in the very introduction of the Communication on the European Green Deal, namely that “the policy response must be bold and comprehensive and seek to maximise benefits for health, quality of life, resilience and competitiveness”, into concrete clean air steps in the 2020 Work Programme of the European Commission.
Read the full letter here
